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The origin of gladiatorial combat is open to debate. There is evidence of it in funeral rites during the Punic Wars of the 3rd century BC, and thereafter it rapidly became an essential feature of politics and social life in the Roman world.
The gladiator games lasted for nearly a thousand years, reaching their peak between the 1st century BC and the 2nd century AD.
1/3 on my Gladiator series
Mousse chocolat noir origine Ghana accompagnée d'une crème onctueuse au yuzu et sa compotée de clémentines corses. L'ensemble est sublimé par un croustillant chocolat gianduja.
Bûche fruitée et chocolatée en édition limitée pour Noël 2020 en version individuelle sur la photo.
Création Vincent Guerlais, Nantes, France.
Une tuerie ! Quel talent notre maître-chocolatier-pâtissier !
Il vous reste bien un petit creux ???
Taken on Acropolis in Lindos on the Island of Rhodes in Greece. According to myths the Acropolis is the place where the worship of the hellenistic gods origined. Later this became the worship of the goddess Athena among other gods.
The present church was built after the fire of 1844. It exhibits a neoclassical construction, decorated with one of the largest organ in South America, a large lamp of Sevillian origin, a French neo-Gothic pulpit, Carrara marbles and wood carving. It is also one of the 70 churches in the world authorized to display the banner of the Vatican.
Il castello ha un'origine piuttosto tarda: nel 1245 la collina di San Salvatore fu ceduta dal comune di Treviso ai conti Collalto, che già vantavano diritti feudali sulla limitrofa contea omonima.
La costruzione fu iniziata tra la fine del tredicesimo secolo, quattordicesimo secolo e l'inizio del quindicesimo secolo. Nel 1312, quando il castello era ormai concluso, i Collalto ottennero da Enrico VII la piena giurisdizione sulle contee di Collalto e San Salvatore: è l'inizio di un principato che, pur in seno al comune di Treviso prima e alla Serenissima poi, mantenne larghissima autonomia sino al 1797, con l'arrivo di Napoleone.
The origin of these "pearls of nature" is a miracle. As I looked more closely at the ground, I saw a small blade of grass that was slightly higher than the others. For this reason, I was able to take my camera closer to the object and take this detail bigger. I was fascinated when I could look at this little wonder of nature at home.
While I was photographed, the sunrays warmed the ice crystals on the grasshammer so that they just slid down the stalk, when I finished with photography. What a wonderful experience that fascinated me once again and I could learn from nature.
This picture shows me both sides of the winter. The first is cold and somehow fancinating, the second shows me that the cold of the wafting sun has to give way. At least in the spring, when the life awakens again.
I am happy to share this here with you.
Enjoy everybody and a wonderful weekend to all of you.
Thank you for all your sympathy for my pictures here and the dear comments, which always give me great pleasure.
Have a wonderful time in the nature.
in explore: 17.12.2016
Fuchsia magellanica, commonly known as the Hummingbird fuchsia or Hardy fuchsia, is a species of flowering plant native to South America, from the temperate southern regions of Argentina and Chile to the Straits of Magellan, in general growing near the waterways.
In the southern part of Chile (Western Patagonia) it grows at the edge of the woods.
This sub-shrub can grow to 10 feet (3.0 m) in height and width in frost-free climates, and 4–5 feet (1.2–1.5 m) where is colder. The plant blossoms profusely over a long period with many small and tubular pendent flowers, in brilliant shades of red and purple, softer shades of pink and lavender, and some in white.
It is naturalized in the United Kingdom and Bolivia, regions where it was introduced for gardening. It arrived in England in the late 18th century. According to tradition, the English gardener James Lee discovered it on the windowsill of a seaman's house and bought it for a considerable sum. As early as 1793 Lee is said to have sold a large number of pieces that he had pulled from this one copy.
In Australia, the species is recorded as naturalised in the states of Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
The species is widely used in gardening, as an ornamental plant, due to the color and shape of its flowers. Many of the existing cultivars of Fuchsia are hybrids of this species with another of the genus, generally originating in warmer climates, since their main use as a source of hybridization is due to their resistance to cold.
It is grown in temperate and subtropical gardens, or in containers on patios, balconies, and indoors, but prefers a sunny position.
The plants are quite cold-hardy compared to other species from more tropical climates, and only die in hard frosts.
The profuse pendent flowers are a nectar source attractive to hummingbirds.
This Fuchsia is one of the species hybridized in obtaining "Brinco-de-princesa" (Princess earring), the name by what is known in Brazil.
Informations by Wikipedia
In certain sense we can say that Fuchsia magellanica can be the mother of many species of fuchsias.
Florença - Firenze - Italia
"Querida pela família Medici, a marca não demorou a se tornar famosa em outros países. Um de seus produtos mais emblemáticos, o perfume L’Acqua della Regina, foi criado especialmente para Catarina di Medici usar no dia de seu casamento com Henrique II o então rei da França" ...
in:
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"The history of Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica, known throughout the world as Pharmacy of Santa Maria Novella, is closely linked to the convent of the Dominican Friars of Santa Maria Novella, and its origin is part of the religious ideal of charity and assistance and healing of sick."
in:
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A l'origine, le domaine faisait partie intégrante de la Forêt de Soignes. En 1833, le marquis Maximilien de Béthune achète 341 ha de forêts, qu'il fait partiellement défricher pour y aménager un parc. Il fait construire trois maisons de garde et deux fermes et entreprend ensuite la construction du château (achevée en 1842), dont il confie la réalisation à l'architecte français Jean-Jacques Nicolas Arveuf-Fransquin et au belge Jean-François Coppens.
Érigé au sommet de la colline, de style néo-renaissance flamand très prisé à l'époque, le château, paré de briques rouges avec des lignes de pierres naturelles, est flanqué de quatre tours et de quatre tourelles. Le terrain marécageux du bas de la colline est transformé en étang.
De 1871 à 1893, le domaine devient la propriété du baron Antoine de Roest d'Alkemade qui l'agrandit au sud jusqu'à ses limites actuelles en acquérant des prairies, les berges de l'Argentine et les étangs de Nysdam.
En 1893, l'industriel Ernest Solvay, Fondateur de la société internationale « Solvay & Co », achète la propriété pour en faire sa résidence d'été. Il confie à Victor Horta le soin de revoir les aménagements intérieurs du château. Une terrasse est aménagée en façade, surmontée d'une marquise vitrée à colonnes de fonte. Ernest Solvay fait réaménager le parc et agrandit encore le domaine qui atteint en 1920, 490 hectares.
Ernest Solvay lègue ses biens de son vivant à ses enfants. Le domaine de La Hulpe est divisé entre ses deux fils, Edmond qui reçoit la partie nord et Armand, l'aîné, qui reçoit le château et la partie basse de la propriété, dont l'ensemble constitue le domaine Solvay actuel.
Armand Solvay, puis son fils, Ernest-John réalisent d'importants aménagements du domaine qui lui donneront sa configuration actuelle.
L'architecte Georges Collin modifie considérablement l'aspect du château. Les tourelles, le clocheton central et la marquise sont supprimés, les flèches des tours sont raccourcies, la brique rouge est recouverte d'un enduit clair.
Ernest-John fait construire un belvédère auquel mène un escalier de 140 marches. Un jardin à la française est créé sur un côté du château. Face à la façade principale, une percée rectiligne engazonnée de 800 mètres à travers la forêt se termine par un obélisque de 36 mètres de haut surmonté d'un soleil doré. Il fait planter des espèces exotiques encore présentes aujourd'hui.
Préoccupé par la perspective d'un morcellement futur du domaine, il obtient son classement en 1963 et décide quelques années plus tard d'en faire don à l'État belge, à la condition de le maintenir dans son intégrité et de promouvoir les manifestations et rencontres culturelles.
Après le décès d'Ernest-John en 1972, cette magnifique propriété de 227 Ha devint accessible au grand public.
(Source : www.chateaudelahulpe.be)
La version d' origine de la photo suivante , pour accéder au désidérata de Christian . L' original " original" était en couleur .
il nome del genere Ophrys ha origine dal greco e significa sopracciglio in riferimento alla pelosità del labello. L’epiteto specifico apifera ha origine dalle voci latine apis, ape e fero, porto in riferimento alla forma del labello che somiglia, appunto, a un’ape.
È una pianta erbacea alta 15–50 cm, con foglie basali ovato-lanceolate o oblunghe, foglie superiori inguainanti e brattee ovato-lanceolate.
L'infiorescenza raggruppa da 3 a 12 fiori con sepali grandi, di colore dal bianco al violaceo, con nervatura centrale e petali corti, pubescenti, di colore dal rosa al verdastro. Il labello è trilobato, con due pronunciate gibbosità villose sui lobi laterali; il lobo mediano, villoso, è di colore bruno, con margine giallastro e appendice triangolare; presenta un disegno variabile, che ricorda l'addome di un insetto, con un’area basale brunastra, lucida, contornata da macchie dal giallo-verde al violaceo.
Credo che avere la terra e non rovinarla sia la più bella forma d’arte che si possa desiderare.
(Andy Warhol)
Origines de la vie, Précambrien- Cambrien
(De - 3700 à -490 millions d'années)
Entre la formation de la Terre ( -4,5 milliards d'années) et les premiers témoignages de vie, il se passe presque un milliard d'années. Pendant les 3 milliards d'années suivants, la vie reste confidentielle et aquatique. Dans l'eau, les organismes se diversifient et se complexifient. D'abord (vers 580 millions d'années) des organismes marins au corps mou, puis les organismes aux structures dures - carapaces et coquilles - se développent fortement en nombre et en taille.
FESTIVAL DES LUMIERES
L'Evolution en voie d'illumination
Jardin des Plantes Paris